Samuel B. McDowell

Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014)^[1][2] was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes,^[2] and studied snakes of Oceania.^[3][4]

Samuel B. McDowell
Born	Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. September 13, 1928
Died	December 31, 2014(2014-12-31) (aged 86)
Nationality	American
Education	Columbia University B.Sc. (1947) Ph.D. (1957)
Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology
Institutions	AMNH
Author abbrev. (zoology)	McDowell

McDowell earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University,^[2] and worked at the American Museum of Natural History.^[2] His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. Several snakes are named in his honor.^[1]

Some taxa authored

• Acrochordus arafurae
• Emydinae
• Pseudoxenodontinae
• Salomonelaps

Eponyms

The following four snakes are named in honor of McDowell.^[5]

• Hydrophis macdowelli Kharin, 1983
• Tropidonophis mcdowelli Malnate & Underwood, 1988
• Gerrhopilus mcdowelli (Wallach, 1996)
• Candoia paulsoni mcdowelli H.M. Smith & Chiszar, 2001

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.

Selected publications

• S. B. McDowell (7 July 2010). "The genera of sea-snakes of the Hydrophis group(Serpentes: Elapidae)". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 32 (3): 189–247. doi:10.1111/J.1096-3642.1972.TB00028.X. ISSN 0084-5620. Wikidata Q99966086.
• S. B. McDowell (20 August 2009). "On the status and relationships of the Solomon Island elapid snakes". Journal of Zoology. 161 (2): 145–190. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1970.TB02032.X. ISSN 1469-7998. Wikidata Q29030857.
• S. B. McDowell (20 August 2009). "Toxicocalamus, a New Guinea genus of snakes of the family Elapidae". Journal of Zoology. 159 (4): 443–511. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1969.TB03900.X. ISSN 1469-7998. Wikidata Q55868153.
• S. B. McDowell; H. G. Cogger (20 August 2009). "Aspidomorphus, a genus of New Guinea snakes of the Family Elapidae, with notes on related genera". Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 151 (4): 497–543. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1967.TB02130.X. Wikidata Q99966085.
• T Lamb; J W Bickham; J W Gibbons; M J Smolen; S McDowell (1 January 1991). "Genetic damage in a population of slider turtles (Trachemys scripta) inhabiting a radioactive reservoir". Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 20 (1): 138–142. doi:10.1007/BF01065340. ISSN 0090-4341. PMID 1996906. Wikidata Q68201288.
• S. B. McDowell; R. Longmore (5 August 1987). "Atlas of Elapid Snakes of Australia". Copeia (in Spanish). 1987 (3): 824. doi:10.2307/1445691. ISSN 0045-8511. Wikidata Q95637275.

References

1. Species Gerrhopilus mcdowelli at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
2. Crumly, Charles R. (2015), "Obituary: Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (13 Sept 1928 - 31 Dec 2014) The most important herpetologist you never knew" (PDF), Herpetological Review, 46 (3): 489–493
3. S. B. McDowell (26 February 1979). "A Catalogue of the Snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with Special Reference to Those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part III. Boinae and Acrochordoidea (Reptilia, Serpentes)". Journal of Herpetology. 13 (1): 1–92. doi:10.2307/1563761. ISSN 0022-1511. JSTOR 1563761. Wikidata Q56037668.
4. S. B. McDowell (24 February 1975). "A Catalogue of the Snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with Special Reference to Those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part II. Anilioidea and Pythoninae". Journal of Herpetology. 9 (1): 1. doi:10.2307/1562691. ISSN 0022-1511. Wikidata Q99974549.
5. Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (McDowell, p. 173).